Quotes from Kanye West

I am Warhol. I am the number one most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh. Walt Disney. Nike. Google.

I just told you who I thought I was: A god. I just told you. That's who I think I am.

Come on now! How could you be me and want to be someone else?

My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

I am so credible and so influential and so relevant that I will change things.

My music isn't just music — it's medicine.

For me to say I wasn't a genius I would just be lying to you and to myself.

I'm like a vessel, and God has chosen me to be the voice and the connector.

I'm the Number One living and breathing rock star.

Don't ask me what I think the best song of last year was, because my opinion is the same as most of America's. It was 'Gold Digger.'

Jay is Kweli's favorite rapper, 50 is Eminem's favorite rapper, and I'm my favorite rapper.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.

aint gon happen!

I'm here to fight for the re-education of what celebrity is: to say, 'Yes, we are celebrities, but yes, we're also innovators. We're also inventors. We're also thoughtful.'

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

People always tell you, 'Be humble. Be humble.' When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

It's not 'can'; it's 'will.' You have to will things into fruition.

I love sleep; it's my favorite.

In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

Love is cursed by monogamy

We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.